{"id":423,"date":"2018-04-11T13:50:24","date_gmt":"2018-04-11T17:50:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/canada\/?p=423"},"modified":"2018-07-17T11:07:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T15:07:36","slug":"the-cross-canada-day-judge-party-is-coming-to-a-city-near-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/canada\/2018\/04\/11\/the-cross-canada-day-judge-party-is-coming-to-a-city-near-you\/","title":{"rendered":"The Cross-Canada Day Judge Party is Coming (to a city near you)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div class=\"wp-caption alignleft judgeimg\"><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/judges\/dci\/9111498514\"><img src=https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/dci\/avatar?dci=9111498514&size=200 alt=\"Written by Michael Gyssels\"><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Written by Michael Gyssels<\/p><\/div>Canada is big. Like really big. A quick search tells me it&#8217;s 5,500 km across and nearly 10 million km sq in area. So, when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtgnationals.ca\/\">Canadian Nationals<\/a> comes to town, in all likelihood, a majority of those 400 judges in our great region won&#8217;t be able to attend. But fear not, for your friendly neighbourhood Hype Team is here with a solution.<\/p>\n<p><p><img  style='float:right'  class='lems-mtg-cardimg' src='http:\/\/gatherer.wizards.com\/Handlers\/Image.ashx?size=small&type=card&name=Hinterland Harbor'><\/p>Last December, nearly <strong>200<\/strong> judges attended parties across the country, drafting, commandering, and celebrating the holidays as one big judge family.\u00a0This year, to celebrate Canada Day and Canadian Nationals, we&#8217;re renewing the cross-Canada party initiative and we need your help! We&#8217;re looking for motivated individuals who won&#8217;t be able to physically join Nationals in Toronto to host a series of parties from coast to coast.<\/p>\n<p>Throughout Nationals weekend, we&#8217;ll be sharing photos, tweets, and posts through a special hashtag to bring the hype! We want to connect the judges in Toronto, Vancouver, Halifax, Victoria, Calgary, Montreal, Quebec City, Prince Albert, Charlottetown, Miramichi, St. John, St. John&#8217;s, Whitehorse, and California (and everywhere in between!) with each other to celebrate Canada Day and Nationals together.<\/p>\n<p>If you aren&#8217;t already, start following our new social media presences for the latest!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Canadajudgemtg\">Twitter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/mtgjudge.ca\/\">Instagram<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/magicjudgecanada\/?ref=br_rs\">Facebook<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What you need:<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>An idea of 5+ certified judges in your area (uncertified judges are welcome, but do not count towards qualification for foil support)<\/li>\n<li>A potential venue<\/li>\n<li>An activity, or set of activities to engage judges:\n<ul>\n<li>Draft<\/li>\n<li>EDH<\/li>\n<li>Board Games<\/li>\n<li>Escape Rooms<\/li>\n<li>Mini-Conference \/ Seminar \/ Workshop<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Lots of hype to fuel your event!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If the above sounds like you, click <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/events\/9766\/\">this link to find the Cross-Canada Judge Party<\/a>. Once you&#8217;ve been accepted, we&#8217;ll send along a form to collect necessary information to help you get started on your journey.<\/p>\n<p>If you live in the following cities, then you&#8217;re in luck, as events are already in the works (Updated April 11):<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/events\/9662\/\">Vancouver<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/events\/9768\/\">Halifax<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/events\/9773\/\">Edmonton<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/events\/9916\/\">Winnipeg<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/apps.magicjudges.org\/events\/9920\/\">Kitchener<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>What Else Should I Know?<\/h2>\n<ul><p><img  style='float:right'  class='lems-mtg-cardimg' src='http:\/\/gatherer.wizards.com\/Handlers\/Image.ashx?size=small&type=card&name=Favor of the Woods'><\/p><\/p>\n<li>The Hype Team is hard at work to produce some special items available only to Canadian Judges! We&#8217;ll send supply kits out to event coordinators once we know how many attendees there will be! If you can&#8217;t get enough certified judges together for a party, and can&#8217;t make it to any other events, but are still interested in being part of the hype, email me (mikegyssels@gmail.com)<\/li>\n<li>There will an online server setup on July 1, in conjunction with our special hashtag, so that folks can come together and discuss what&#8217;s happening at Nationals, share photos and #judgesoutofcontext from their local events, and ultimately to gather as many Canadian Judges in a (chat)room as possible!<\/li>\n<li>We&#8217;re doing our best to broadcast your twitter and instagram photos in the judge room at Nats so we can take selfies with your selfies! \ud83d\ude42<\/li>\n<li>If you&#8217;d REALLY like to attend Nationals and want some help getting there, check out the <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/canada\/2018\/04\/09\/the-canadian-regional-enrichment-sponsorship-pilot-phase\/\">Canadian Regional Enrichment Sponsorship<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nationals is coming July 1st. Even if you can&#8217;t be in Toronto, we want you to be part of the hype. Find out you can host a Canada Day Judge Party in your local area to celebrate with the rest of our Canadian pals! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":359,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[28,20,29],"language":[39],"class_list":["post-423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","category-news","tag-canada-day","tag-hype-team","tag-social-events","language-en_us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":530,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423\/revisions\/530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423"},{"taxonomy":"language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.magicjudges.org\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/language?post=423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}